It has been stated here that Steinberg has this as a TOP priority and will be working away on it as expeditiously as possible. I am confident they will be releasing it soon (next few months). The one thing they CANNOT afford to do is release it prematurely and break the ability to view video in a variety of formats without glitches. Too many post-audio houses and film composers rely on this for them to ship it in a broken or seriously buggy state. Many pro audio and pro video applications are going through the same process as Steinberg in replacing the video engine in their apps. It is no small task by any measure and it has to be done right the first time.
The solution we have at the moment works and many post people are living with this same issue in different apps, not just Nuendo.
Maybe they will leave the old video engine/Nuendo version intact, so that you can choose to work with the new or old engine (if you do not uninstall Quicktime libraries that is of course…)
Waiting to see if this new video engine works flawlessly. I had so many problems in the past with the old engine as far as compatibility with different video format goes. I think this a major fix to Cubase and it’s about time they address the issue. Why not have an agreement with a company that did the VLC player?
I didn’t upgrade to Cubase pro 9 mainly because of this too.
If you consider a regular situation being the US Government telling us to uninstall a Cubase dependency and Steinberg having to replace it asap.
Either way, it’s not development for the next version specifically but for 8.5 and 9, so it’s a valid question to ask what it means for development of 9.5
… apparently not, according to this in the C8.5 forum: Cubase Pro/Artist updates 8.5.30 available
“Unfortunately the schedule as described by Timo Wildenhain and the goal to have the new engine in Q1 2017 could not be realised and hence the new video engine did not make it into the final maintenance update of 8.5”.
Oh, that’s actually a pretty bad broken promise for those who depend on video. Still it’s not developed for the 9.5 update so I want to know how it impacts that.